Ironically you may be reading this note because you clicked on a link from my Twitter account.
My site is setup to post links to Twitter, every 15 minutes, if there was a new post here on my site. I try to add a little context by adding the category before the Twitter status (e.g. "Link:") and I also include the title of the note so that people can choose whether or not to click the link from Twitter back to my site.
But I could see this getting pretty annoying for some.
Someone whose opinion I value, Justin Blanton, had said in October 2007, on Twitter no less, that he didn’t like the whole "use Twitter to link to your blog" method of letting people know when you update your site. In some ways I agree with him but in others I find it fairly useful when I am not near Twitter to automate the process. I’m torn.
This process all started when I started to post mobile photos with my iPhone. At first they were going to Flickr and so I once Flickr updated the RSS feed for my photos, I had a script that would notify Twitter of the new photo. Once I began to post my mobile photos here on my site, I figured I would do the same thing.
This slowly expanded into, what is now, a script that will post to Twitter every single time I publish something to my site.
So, I ask – should I continue this? Is it annoying? It is useful? Should I only do it for mobile photos and nothing else? Please let me know in the comments.